• @remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    410 months ago

    Appropriate use of usurp. It’s rarely used and almost always a good description when it is.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    410 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that he and multiple other users on social media and Microsoft’s support forums have suddenly found their Chrome browsing sessions mysteriously replicated in Edge.

    Without an official comment from Microsoft, Warren posits that the tab-snatching happened because of a bug or an inadvertently clicked-through dialog box that triggers a feature in Edge that’s meant to make it easier to (intentionally) switch browsers.

    The setting, which can be accessed by typing edge://settings/profiles/importBrowsingData into the browser’s address bar, offers to import recent browsing data from Chrome every time you launch Edge, as opposed to the one-time data import it offers for Firefox.

    Assuming it is a bug, this data-importing issue is hard to distinguish from some of Microsoft’s actual officially sanctioned, easy-to-reproduce tactics for pushing Edge.

    (I personally would love it if PCs I’ve been using for months or years would stop asking me to “finish setting up [my] device.”)

    Edge is based on the same Chromium browsing engine as Chrome, and most users probably wouldn’t notice much of a difference in how most pages render in either browser.


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    • LeoOPMA
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      29 months ago

      The chromium ouroborus…

    • LeoOPMA
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      210 months ago

      Doesn’t look like any of the reporting notes anything other than Chrome, so probably not. Seeing as how it’s supposedly a bug, I wouldn’t worry much.